Mr. Speaker, Western Opinion Research just conducted a huge poll in Manitoba. Eighty-six per cent of Manitobans want their senators elected. Only seven per cent said “let the Prime Minister appoint them”.
We know how the Prime Minister treats his backbench MPs like sheep who cannot think for themselves. He whipped them so hard on the hepatitis C vote that some of them cried while they were voting.
Is this how the Prime Minister plans to treat 86% of Manitobans on Senate elections?